Social Worker - PMCHI

Allied Health Professional Primary Care Mental Health Integration

Total Rewards of an Allied Health Professional Primary Care Mental Health Integration provides same day mental health support within the primary care environment. This position will include brief therapy, crisis response, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Interviews veterans and their family members/significant others to establish facts about the veteran's situation, presenting problems and their causes, and the impact of such problems on the veteran's functioning and health as part of a psychosocial assessment.
• Independently evaluates the client's situation.
• Performs insightful assessment of serious and complicated cases involving psychiatric illness involving psychiatric, catastrophic medical conditions, dementia and other high-risk diagnoses.
• Uses the initial assessment to determine the veteran's likelihood to accept differing types of assistance or referrals.
• Develops preliminary psychosocial treatment plans in coordination with veteran/family. Makes recommendations to the interdisciplinary team.
• Assists and encourages veterans and significant others in facing problems, thinking them through, evaluating the situation realistically, considering alternative courses of action, and arriving at plans for using resources to resolve problems.
• Develops working relationships and agreements with other organizations having responsibilities for the same patient population. Maintains a current and productive network of referral resources.
• Makes provision for referral services from other agencies or community resources, and other VA and Governmental agencies to resolve problems.
• Documents independently in the medical records utilizing electronic formats, including psychosocial assessments, diagnostics, treatment, progress notes, follow up, and referral.
• Perform risk assessment and crisis management to promote Veteran safety including safety planning and facilitating transfer to higher level of care when needed.
• Provide evidence-based care for Primary Care patients utilizing 30 minute appointments to target a wide variety of emotional and behavioral medicine concerns.

Work Schedule: 8:00am - 4:30pm Monday - Friday

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized

EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 93245A

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized